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  1. At a large Health Region I worked at, Looney Tunes on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    We used characters from Looney Tunes: Daffy, Daisy, Bugs, Tweety, Sylvester, etc. Granny was the VPN server guardian :)

  2. New fuel, but no metal to build it?? on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    FTA "he faced many difficulties in obtaining specific metals such as aluminum that are not allowed into Gaza."

    So... he has an alternate fuel source, and a new invention to cook with, but no means to mass-produce the new invention because you can't import aluminum into Gaza??? Where's the breakthrough?

  3. In Canada... on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    With TELUS, you can order what they call "dark DSL" - dumb name, but it's full DSL access, with varying speed/pricing packages, and it's without dial tone or its associated access charges..

  4. Reforming attitudes about sanitation??? on Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... this, coming from a woman who wholesalely was the greatest single cause of spreading V.D. amongst the troops. True. Look it up.

  5. Without having RTFA (who does these days..)... on FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Which is a "better" scenario. One where there are many small points of possible failure (a GPS sending unit per plane) or one large point of possible failure (having a radar station go fubar on a Friday night)?

    What are the opinions of Slashdotters who experience both types of failures in their respective corporate worlds?

  6. If they're slightly off target... on Private Firm Plots Robotic Lunar Exploration · · Score: 1

    ..and if they crash land ON the Eagle, there's gonna be a lot of pissed of Americans.

  7. Re:If you're that worried... on Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TrueCrypt plausible deniability was just recently broken. See this Slashdot article from July 17 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/2043248&from=rss

  8. Am I the only one who went... on Skype Messages Monitored In China · · Score: 1

    Milk Powder... huh?

  9. Something tells me... on 11 Charged In TJX, Other Breaches · · Score: 1

    ... this guy isn't going to be the next Kevin Mitnick.

  10. 1st thing I'd get it to compute... on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?"

  11. My first though, when I saw the picture... on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    ... was that it looked like a Weeble. Then I saw the license plate. WOBL. Remember "Weeble's wobbles but they don't fall down".

  12. Cue the condom jokes, in on Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs · · Score: 1

    3... 2... 1... ~m

  13. Penicillin. on Gates' Last Day At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ...for the man who has everything... ~m

  14. W.O.P.R. is calling... on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 1

    WANT TO PLAY A GAME?

  15. Insert... on China Buying US Directed Sound 'Weapon' · · Score: 1
    ... obligatory "Brown Note" reference here.... or is they only selling them the "Yellow Note" model?

  16. It's not just a password retrieval tool,... on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1
    it also "contains about 150 commands" to make their job easier. In other words, the average law enforcement officer may not know where to look for internet cache files, but this tool could automatically fetch them for him/her.

    Since a computer (or the evidenciary data) has to be in pristine condition to stand up in a court of law, the current process is to make an identical, bit-by-bit exact copy of the drives and RAM, and examine those in a lab setting, apart from the suspect computer.

    I wonder if this little MS device follows those rules or is it invasive, and leaves tracks like regular commands would??

  17. The FIRST time??? on New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color · · Score: 1
    "...enabling scientists to see individual atoms in color for the very first time."...

    Actually, I'm guessing the folks over at NION (the company who built the thing) were the first... Somebody had to test it out, right?

  18. It's called non-hypothesis-based data mining. on Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats · · Score: 1

    Remember the urban legend of "beer and diapers"? (If not, just do a search on the intarweb)... Seriously, Non-Hypothesis-Based Data Mining is all about removing pre-conceived ideas about how data should be extracted or may be interpreted from a given database of "seemingly random" information. For instance, let's say a study shows that for a given populated area, a high-number of Leukemia cases happen along a path which follows an overhead powerline. The natural hypothesis might be to assume that the powerline is (at least partially) at fault for those cancer cases; However, if you remove that hypothesis, your mind will be open to more possibilities for the illness numbers. An example can be that powerline trail housing tends to be less desirable, and therefore more affordable than those homes only a few blocks away. Maybe, because those lower cost homes draw lower income families, that their initial health care is not up to par, and other contributing factors and causes go undetected. Maybe those lower income families tend to eat more processed food and less ruffage, also contributing factors. Once again, remove the hypotheses, and the conclusive results will be even more profound that you could once perceive. ~m

  19. Most major US Corporations... on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 1

    ... (Think The Gap, Best Buy, etc) ALL get their products and good manufactured offshore for pennies an hour in labor. Should those companies contribute to US social systems to offset the billions in wages that are not being paid out to the American workforce? C'mon... get real. ~m

  20. No News... on Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban · · Score: 1

    ...is Good News. Hrmm...

  21. Laptop Heat ! on Body Heat Could Charge Your Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Well if body heat can charge a cell phone battery, surely the ball-burning heat the bottom of my laptop kicks out can charge it's own batteries and double my unplugged time??? ~m

  22. Police State Laws... on Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake · · Score: 1

    Good to see the "PATRIOT" Act, etc being put to good use!

  23. Why would IMMUNE cells need help??? on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1
    Athough I didn't RTFA, from the headline "a natural ingredient of human blood that prevents the HIV-1 virus from from infecting immune cells" sounds kind of redundant. Why would IMMUNE cells need help in the first place???

    ~m

  24. Shit Hits The Fan on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    I guess that's when the shit REALLY hits the fan! ~m

  25. Re:It will it hit the brown note. on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    I guess that's when the shit really hits the fan...

    ~m